Yes it is true that the women in nanjilnadu which was part of the then THIRUVITHANKUR samasthanam had been threatened to have no clothes over there breast by the upper caste ,that too againt one particular caste women, even if they wanted they had to pay for it.There was a protest in nanjil nadu against this inhuman way of treatiment meted out to people, famously called as thol seelai porattam-means cloth for the upper half of the body.